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30 May 2018
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HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach

Had her mother not gone back to school to earn her college degree while raising two young children, Diamond Richardson (MBA 2019) might not have pursued higher education. “It taught me that you can do anything if you really put the effort... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Thomas A. James, MBA 1966

Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Download James profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page 1942 Born, Sandusky, Ohio 1964 Earns BA, Economics, Harvard College 1966 Earns MBA 1966 Joins Raymond James Financial, Controller... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

decided that she didn’t have the right technology skills to make it viable. It was in her second year that she discovered how her finance background could help her show others how to align portfolios with principles. Building on the... View Details

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Preview the Harvard Business School Online Learning Experience

characterizes a successful entrepreneur and the skills you need to thrive. Download for Free Business in Society E-Book Define your purpose, make the case for corporate social responsibility, further your education, and help enact change in your organization. Download... View Details

26 May 2016
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Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971

Download Alan F. Horn profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1943 Born, New York, New York 1964 Earns BA, Economics, Union College 1971 Earns MBA with Distinction 1971 Joins Procter & Gamble 1973 Joins Tandem... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

Boston has always been fueled by an Enlightenment belief in scientific progress and human perfectibility. It is home to America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and college, Harvard College (1636). After the American... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

23 Oct 2019
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An Experiment in Online Education Reaches 50,000 Learners in Five Years

entrepreneurship, and finance and accounting. One of its first offerings, the Credential of Readiness (CORe), remains its flagship. This unique program provides an intro- duction to essential business concepts, including financial... View Details

Keywords: HBS Online; Educational Innovation

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Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship

Where can I find information to help me with my course work? Information on education and social entrepreneurship Research Task Suggested Resources Education Newsletters and Article Databases Chronicle of Higher Education - news about View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)

The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits In addition to its print publications, the Russell Sage Foundation also harnessed the new medium of film to... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity

usurers out of business, but in the long run they played a crucial role in making finance culturally acceptable and laying the foundations of European banking. “Although the montes themselves were pawnshops,” writes medieval historian... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

1895); quote Alfred Bishop Mason, “Things to Do,” Charities Review (March 1892): 212. 29 Rolf Nugent, The Provident Loan Society of New York: An Account of the Largest Remedial Loan Society (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1932), 51. 30 Calder, View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

magazine. Among many honors, he was elected president of the American Finance Association in 1993 and the Western Economic Association International in 1994 and admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. A graduate of... View Details

12 May 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

the same time expanding the art appreciation of the staff members,” he says. “We have no market for contemporary art by young artists here,” notes Shibayama, who also teaches the business of art at two Japanese universities. “We have around 20,000 art majors graduating... View Details

21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

team, Narayanan is developing one of three modules that will comprise a new online learning program for college students and non-business graduate students. "Each year, we admit 900 students to HBS's MBA program," says... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

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Jonathan Bailey

through an English/U.S. exchange program and had earned it by being a champion debater at Oxford and by helping found a nonprofit that paired college mentors with high-school students. For a person deeply interested in "the roles of... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

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Jason Sanders

diagnosticians." Broadening perspectives through teamwork Inspired by his college experience as a hospital orderly, Jason chose a path in medicine. But during his third year in clinical rotation at Harvard Medical School, "I saw... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults by Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington (MBA 1982) Flatiron Books Parenting never ends. The high school and college years are an extended rollercoaster of academics, friends, first... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Closing the 'Network Gap'

she could help. In an open message on LinkedIn, she offered her own contacts and experiences to any Black college student or recent graduate interested in the finance or tech sectors. “The next morning, my... View Details

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

check HOLLIS . ** Reprinted in Continuous-Time Finance , revised edition, by Robert C. Merton . Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1992. The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models Next: Lenders to the Exhibit Copyright ©... View Details

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